Product Description
The Woman in the Wood
Author: Lesley Pearse
Format: Paperback
A missing teenager. An outcast woman. And a girl determined to find the truth . . . From the Sunday Times bestselling author
Discover the addictive and gripping novel from the bestselling author of You'll Never See Me Again, Lesley Pearse
'A gripping novel' — HELLO! Magazine
London, 1960.
The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change for ever the night their mother is sent away.
Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned.
And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who've found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan alive.
Yet Maisy refuses to give up.
Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart . . .
Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood?
And what will she find if she does?
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'A real page-turner, a family story that is multi-layered just as you'd expect from Lesley Pearse, who is deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers' — My Weekly
'Characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' — Daily Mail
About the Author
International bestselling author Lesley Pearse has lived a life as rich with incidents, setbacks and joys as any found in her novels. By the mid-sixties she was living in London, sharing flats, partying hard and married to a trumpet player in a jazz-rock band. She has also worked as a nanny and a Playboy bunny, owned a gift shop and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques. It was only after having one son and three daughters that Lesley began to write. She published her first book at forty-nine and has not looked back since. Lesley is still a party girl.
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